Sheehan you goose

[-WWJD-]

According to Mike Sheehan Roo was the 14th best in the league this year...behind the likes of Black, Hayes, Brown and Barry Hall?!

I always thought he was an idiot, but this just confirms it.

Top 50

 

[tribey]

Sheehan has never rated anything Adelaide-related.

Green eggs and ham Sam I am...

 

[DaveW]

Hayes a better midfielder than Ricciuto?

What is this guy smoking?

 

[Scotty's_Girl]

Nutmeg??

 

[Damp Squarie]

Victorian Apathy at its most finest..
Are there any bigfooty posters that give this hoophead any credibility

 

[Ghostwriter]

McLeod at 47 wtf???

 

[maccas_no1]

Just ignore Mike Sheehan most of Melbourne does Basically he is the Michaelangleo Rucci of Melbourne Yes every city has one

 

[-WWJD-]

Originally posted by maccas_no1
Just ignore Mike Sheehan most of Melbourne does Basically he is the Michaelangleo Rucci of Melbourne Yes every city has one

lol too right.

It's just makes me laugh how a so called "footy journalist" can know so little about the game

 

[Leaping Lindner]

He did rate McLeod #2 in 2001.

I usually enjoy his work but this years list is like he has thrown 50 names up in the air and ordered them the way they landed.

For the record on last-this(?) season's form I'll take Tyson Edwards ahead of any the players between 40 and 50 (except maybe McLeod ).

 

[tribey]

OK... I think it's time we all do our own - if you can be arsed/have the time that is:

My Top 50 list from 16-04-03* (posted on another site):

1. Michael Voss
2. Andrew McLeod
3. Jason Akermanis
4. Nathan Buckley
5. Ben Cousins
6. Justin Leppitsch
7. Simon Black
8. Mark Ricciuto
9. Nathan Brown
10. Luke Darcy
11. Nigel Lappin
12. Matthew Primus
13. Simon Goodwin
14. Matthew Lloyd
15. Shane Woewodin
16. Shane Crawford
17. Warren Tredrea
18. Matthew Pavlich
19. David Neitz
20. Nick Riewoldt
21. Dustin Fletcher
22. Adam Simpson
23. Brad Johnson
24. Michael Gardiner
25. Mal Michael
26. Jason Johnson
27. Adem Yze
28. Sean Wellman
29. Ben Hart
30. Byron Pickett
31. Brad Scott
32. Des Headland
33. Scott West
34. Peter Bell
35. David King
36. Chris Scott
37. Anthony Rocca
38. Paul Williams
39. Jonathon Brown
40. Barry Hall
41. Brent Harvey
42. Chris Johnson
43. Alistair Lynch
44. Tyson Edwards
45. Nick Stevens
46. Anthony Stevens
47. Scott Camporeale
48. Steven Milne
49. Steven King
50. Russell Robertson

*Not considered due to wretched form/injury/layoff:

Kouta, Francou, Carey, Hird, Ottens, Ratten, Archer, Everitt, Whitnall, R. Harvey.
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My Top 50 posted today on BigFooty - not necessarily for their performances in 2003, but their relative ranking as players in my eyes as of this particular moment*

1. Michael Voss
2. Adam Goodes
3. Nathan Buckley
4. Warren Tredrea
5. Mark Ricciuto
6. Simon Black
7. Jonathon Brown
8. Gavin Wanganeen
9. Matthew Lloyd
10. Michael Gardiner
11. Jason Akermanis
12. James Hird
13. Shane Crawford
14. Robert Harvey
15. Peter Bell
16. Andrew McLeod
17. Matthew Pavlich
18. Barry Hall
19. Adam Simpson
20. Nigel Lappin
21. Ben Cousins
22. Justin Leppitsch
23. Chris Tarrant
24. Lenny Hayes
25. Chad Fletcher
26. Brent Harvey
27. Mal Michael
28. Anthony Rocca
29. Matthew Scarlett
30. Scott Burns
31. Byron Pickett
32. Alistair Lynch
33. Tyson Edwards
34. Peter Burgoyne
35. Ben Hart
36. Clint Bizzell
37. Dean Brogan
38. Chris Johnson
39. Nick Riewoldt
40. Phillip Matera
41. Rohan Smith
42. Brett Kirk
43. Jason Johnson
44. Shane Wakelin
45. Luke Power
46. Paul Hasleby
47. Graham Johncock
48. Fraser Gehrig
49. Mark Coughlan
50. Chris Judd

*All the obvious players not considered due to injury... Primus, Francou, King, etc etc.

 

[maccas_no1]

Mike Sheehan **** Off

 

[mic59]

He definitely didn't have a 2nd look at it. What really ****es me off about a lot of scribes is they look at what has gone before. I mean, James Hird #6? Jonathan Brown #10? And I think most Adelaide supporters would agree Ben Hart above Andrew McLeod is nonsense. And Mark Ricciuto #14? Maybe Mike Sheehan has been buying his cigarettes from David Granger. In my opinion Mark Ricciuto is not just your best player this year, he has been your best for about the last 3. I have a bit of a problem with Mal Michaels' #22, Matthew Pavlich's #26 and Brett Kirk's #37, too. Kirk at 26, Pavlich at 22 and Michael at 37 seems closer to the mark. And it looks very much as if Sheehan has put in Brogan to make up the numbers. For the player who was arguably best knock ruckman in the AFL from round 6 to round 19, and gave Adam Goodes a towelling, I would have expected more than a place behind luminaries such as Shane (no more tears) *Wakelin, Joel Smith, Fraser Gehrig and Anthony Rocca.
A good idea is to look at his pre-season top 50 and ask yourself, did that player do better/worse than the year before?
I'll stop here before I manage to do a Sheehan and offend everyone in the football world with my opinions.

*Joke courtesy of this morning's Herald-Sun.

 

[macca23]

You comments are on the money, mic59.

For a bloke who wouldn't have his job unless it was assumed he knew something about the game it was a half-arsed p*ss-poor effort.

 

[Docker_Brat]

Dean Bogan making the list says it all.

 

[Bockchoy67]

Actually, I think Dean Brogan deserves to be in the top 50. In the middle half of the year he was dominating the ruckwork.

What really annoys me is the Riccuito, a man that won the Brownlow, is no.14. Did Hall, Hayes and Tredrea win the Brownlow? No. Did Riccuitio? Yes.

I thought that the Brownlow was awarded to the best players of the season.

I respect Mike Sheehan, and he's done a pretty god job with this list considering, but 14th for Ricciuto is crazy.